Developmental Skills
and Tasks among
Adolescents
Lesson 3
Havighurst’s Developmental Tasks of
Adolescents
• Robert Havighurst, an American educator and
writer, elaborated stages of developmental tasks
that any individual must successfully go through.
• According to him, there are six stages of
development of an individual throughout his or
her life and each stage has critical
developmental tasks that need to be satisfied to
get through also the succeeding stages.
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of
Development
Erik Erikson, a famous developmental
psychologist, stated in his Theory of
Psychosocial Development that
adolescents approximately aged 12 to
18 are going to face a struggle with
what they think of themselves and who
they want to be. That is why it is a
matter of forming identity versus
confusion.
Erik Erikson, a famous developmental
psychologist, stated in his Theory of
Psychosocial Development that
adolescents approximately aged 12 to
18 are going to face a struggle with
what they think of themselves and
who they want to be. That is why it is
a matter of forming identity versus
confusion.
Piaget’s Cognitive Development:
The Formal Operational Stage
Piaget’s Cognitive Development:
The Formal Operational Stage
• The formal operational stage saves us all from these
limitations. From listening to music, getting the feel of it to
reading the lyrics and being able to relate to it. From
thinking of “what if?” to the beginnings of a revolutionary
idea or eureka moment that rooted from “why not?”
• What makes us human in mind is our ability to process
formal operations that allows us to philosophize, innovate,
create, imagine, hypothesize, deduct, and criticize
externally and internally, overtly or covertly.
Early Middle Late
(12-13) (14-16) (17-)
• The ability to accept one’s body and to think
more responsibly of one’s body are
developmental tasks during EARLY
ADOLESCENCE.
FROM - Kimmel and Weiner
Are you a Responsible
Person?
Developing good judgement
Knowing right from wrong
The capacity for empathy
A strong sense of self-esteem
•EMPATHY is the ability to understand
how others feel.
Evaluation No. 3
1. The ability to accept one’s body and to think more responsibly of one’s body are
developmental tasks during which stage from Kimmel and Weiner.
2. The ability to understand how others feel.
3. Which of the following behaviors do not illustrate accountability?
A. Blaming others C. Studying your lessons everyday
B. Coming prepared in class D. doing your part on an assigned group project
4. How does today’s generation differ from older generations?
A. Style of living C. Courtship rituals
B. Values and beliefs D. All of the above
5. Which is the most important building block of responsibility?
A. Self-regulation C. Self-control
B. Self-esteem D. Self-discipline
Answer
[Link] Adolescence
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3.A
4.D
5.B
Food for the soul…